June 11, 2009

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FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they'd found the magazine's address

A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to discuss it in detail. An FBI spokeswoman, Katherine Schweit , also declined to comment on the investigation.

Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine. They told staffers that they had found the address of the magazine on a piece of paper associated with the shooter, James von Brunn, and asked whether the Standard had received any threats.

The magazine is about a mile north of the Holocaust Museum, and there's no other indication that von Brunn had targeted it. Von Brunn's published rants included attacks on "neocons," and the Standard has been at the heart of the neoconservative movement.

The suggestion that the Standard may have been a target complicates any view of the racist shooter in contemporary left-right terms. Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist," but the substance of his views -- which included everything from believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks to denying that President Obama is an American citizen -- are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification.

The focus on the Standard, though, appears to be of a piece with his central motivation: Anti-Semitism. In one essay, Von Brunn attacked "JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY," and the suggestion that neoconservatism is a specifically Jewish conspiracy is common on the racist fringe.

Why would a white supremacist automatically be categorized as a "right-wing extremist"? This may be a stereotype or a caricature by leftists, but should not be an assumption by the media. Hating "Bush", "McCain", "Neocons", Christians", "Capitalists", etc. hardly sounds like a right-wing extremist to me.

Thank you for playing it down the middle on this one. While we all have learned that the political left in this country immediately looks to capitalize on these murderous crackpots by associating them with the political right, it many times turns out that the murderer was just plain crazy. The problem we are having is completely different then what ideology the murderer adhered to though. The problem is where are these crazy people getting their weapons? How can someone who leaves crazy rantings all over the interent like von Brun be allowed to possess a weapon of murder? And how is it that Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad was able to possess a weapon of murder while the FBI was investigating him for having terrorist ties?

"will all the left wing ranters now change their mind about this guy now that he's from the Left?"........Of course they will,now he will just be angry at the Jews for their treatment palestinians and their illegal occupation of the West Bank.

The guy had the address of the Standard and the FBI checked to see if they had received any threats. They hadn't.
Where do you get the conclusion that this suggests the Weekly Standard was a possible target? If anything, it suggests that he was a FAN of the Standard.

To Ben Smith,
Why do you accept the premise that to be a white supremacist that you must also be right wing. Historically this isn't true. As I am sure you are aware the KKK, which is in league with the Neo-Nazi movement, was created by the Democratic party. Further more Nazism is also predominantly a left wing ideology with the gov't being owner of industry.
Please don't blur the line and accept a demonstrably false premise.
Thank you,
Aaron Gardner

The first major neoconservative to embrace the term, Irving Kristol, is considered a founder of the neoconservative movement. Kristol wrote of his neoconservative views in the 1979 article "Confessions of a True, Self-Confessed 'Neoconservative.'"
Kristol's son, William Kristol, founded the neoconservative Project for the New American Century(PNAC).

By forming tactical alliances and associations with groups like evangelical Christians and hardline nationalists to promote their policy goals, neocons became a powerful faction in Washington, D.C., especially after the 9/11 attacks.

The Weekly Standard is owned by News Corporation and made its debut on September 16, 1995. Its current editors are founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes. It produces The Daily Standard with commentary and articles written for the magazine's website.
Other frequent contributors include Christopher Hitchens, P.J. O'Rourke, Charles Krauthammer, David Frum, Stephen Schwartz, Matt Labash, and Stephen F. Hayes.

I love how one guy who pretty much everyone on the right and the left can agree was nuts becomes a football to blame on the other side.
The fringe is just that: the fringe. If you go far enough to the left you can back around on the right. In reality, these folks aren't even on the same dimension of conflict as us libs and cons.
It doesn't matter if he was a right-wing nut or a left-wing nut or neither. What matters is that he is a nut, and he murdered a guy in his nuttiness.

The view that the neocons are on the right wing is simplistic and inaccurate. Their agenda is Wilsonian, not truly conservative. The congruence of their interests with that of Israel no doubt led to Von Brunn connecting the dots. He probably had no truck with fundamentalist Christians who championed Israel. Let's not play this fingerpointing game of the shooter being a lefty or a righty. Von Brunn was not that simple; no human being is that simple.

Letsz see what is worse. This guy hated Obama and was a Birther, that is he did not think Obama was born in the U.S.(like many of you wackos). Or he hated fox news and bill o the clown. Hmmm! I guess it is a tossup, your right it is left wing conspiracy. What a stretch. AGAIN!!!

Von Brunn is clearly an equal opportunity hater. His target could easily have been blacks or hispanics as well. I suppose he had the same point of view that David Duke had in the last election. He couldn't support McCain because of his neocon ties and he couldn't support Obama because he is, well, black. When we are labeling White Supremacist Whackjobs, it might be helpful to differentiate between those who consider Jews to be white, and those who don't. But don't forget that David Duke was a Republican.

Ben, your subject heading is deceiving. Please change it. This guy hates black people and jews.He also hates Barack Obama and questions his legitimacy to be president. The fact that the FBI went to see employees at the Weekly Standard about a Weekly Standard address found in his car does not mean that they were his target.

Hey Aaron Gardner, please tell me your joking. The democratic party is a melting pot of different races and religions. How do you equate that to neo-nazi's? That would be like saying that the republican party is responsible for the religious conservative nutcases all over the world.

It is pretty obvious he was a lefty. He was a registered as a Democrat in Maryland, he hated Israel, Bush, Cheney, neocons, and 'Zionists'... he was a self proclaimed socialist and he wrote about admiring Chomsky. He sounds a lot more like Rosie O'Donnell than any 'right wing' person I know.

I TOLD you this guy was a huffpo leftie! Go over to huffpo and click on ANY post about Israel, the Middle East, or the palestinians. There are more Jew-hating leftwingnuts on huffpo than there are rats at an LA landfill!

"believing that President Bush may have been in on the September 11 attacks" Bush Derangement Syndrome strikes again.
As if the right wing extremists don't already have Obama Derangement Syndrome. You righties always talk
about and promote that "Obama Deception" movie by Alex Jones. Do you know that Alex Jones is the same clown who promoted the theory that 9/11 was a government conspiracy.

Leftist? I don't think so.
Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Leftist? I don't think so.
Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

For those posting the 'birther' comment, it is important to note that the original birther is a registered Democrat, Hillary Clinton supporter, Philip Berg- he and Hillary supporters are the ones who got the whole 'birther' movement rolling in the first place during the primaries.

mntx- don't you right-wingers EVER get tired of spreading lies? Here's a link showing the shooter's admiration for Bush and Palin and hatred of Obama: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2009/06/james-w-von-brunn-obama-is-missing.php?page=1

Dave,
He wasn't a poster at 'Free Republic', one person copied an article by him from a Norwegian forum on that site.. it had no antisemitism or racism and there was no indication anyone knew who he was.. Free Republic having that article is no different than Talking Points Memo having it, it was just a repost of an article he wrote somewhere else... Free Republic is a strong Israel supporter, to a fault, and stood against everything Von Brunn stood for.

Sorry, but rightwing ideology is the ideology of xenophobia and nationalism. Look it up. To say this nutsack is a leftie is redicules. That is not to say that all right wingers are Republicans, they aren't. A lot of them belong to fringe parties like the Constitution Party, just as the lefts more extreme elements often belong to the Green Party. Nothing about the Weekly Standard can change that. Many a leftie HATE the NY Times, and for good reason, I'm not surprised that the more fringe elements of the rightwing hate certain mainstream conservative publications.

Leftist, give me a break.
Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
This is hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name on December 02, 2008
Free Republic
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Obama is missing!
DN.no (Nowegian Forum) ^ | December 2, 2008 | James W. von Brunn
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:40:03 PM by wannabegeek
Obama is missing!
The American People Demand to Know:
WHO SENT YOU???
Obama has lived for 48 years without leaving any footprints -- none! There is no Obama documentation -- no records -- no paper trail -- none -- this is no accident. It is being done on purpose with Media help - but to serve whom & why???
MISSING-HIDDEN DOCUMENTS:
Original, vault copy of Certificate of Live Birth in the USA -- Not Released (1 version hidden in Hawaii, Original found in Kenya)
Certificate of Live Birth -- Released - Proven Counterfeit (www.ObamaFiles.com)
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application -- Not Released
Punahou School records -- Not released
Selective Service Registration -- Released - Proven Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport (Pakistan) -- Not released
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None (maybe 1, Not Signed)
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None (Locked up to prohibit public view
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost (All other Illinois state senators' records are intact)
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
WHY DON'T WE SEE ONE WORD OF THIS IN ANY OF THE MEDIA?
Love him or hate him, we all remember how the press went to great lengths to find out every move that President Bush made ... finally unable to come up with anything factual, so they created it! When their accusations were proven empty, they refused to retract one word of the fraud they perpetrated on the American people.
Dan Rather lost his job over fraudulent documents, because common people like you & me reached out and ripped CBS to pieces. They couldn't stand the loss of sponsors OR viewers!
The same Media went to great lengths to scandalize & destroy Sarah Palin. She maintains a 91% approval rating among voters from all parties, thanks to the Internet and investigative journalists who don't work for the mainstream media.
NOW ------- The Supreme Court has scheduled a Conference for Dec 5th about Obama's
U. S. Citizenship. STILL, not a word about any of this from the Media. If it were not for the Internet and talk radio, American citizens would become the servants of a dishonest & conspiratorial Media.
THINK ABOUT IT. IT DIDN'T USED TO BE THIS WAY! How much longer are we going to sit on our hands & say not a word?
AND DON'T THINK THE MEDIA SIMPLY DOESN'T KNOW - THEY ARE GETTING POUNDED WITH EMAILS ABOUT IT!!!
Obama could not get a simple security clearance with the information the government has on him ---- NOBODY COULD!
NOW he is privy to every top secret America has!
What is going on??? WHERE ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY - ARE YOU OUT THERE???
Submitted by: James W. von Brunn

It is pretty obvious he was a lefty. He was a registered as a Democrat in Maryland, he hated Israel, Bush, Cheney, neocons, and 'Zionists'... he was a self proclaimed socialist and he wrote about admiring Chomsky. He sounds a lot more like Rosie O'Donnell than any 'right wing' person I know.
What? So this neo nazi domestic terrorist is a lefty even though he hates people of color. Earth to the right wing nutcases, the guy hated President Obama and anyone of color.

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Since it is 2:07 PM EST 6/11/09 (Thursday) right now how can the statement
"Two other sources said two FBI agents arrived shortly after 5:00 p.m. Thursday at the 17th Street offices of the magazine."
be given any credibility?

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

All they have is the address. Maybe that's where he was going afterwards, thought he could get refuge there. Or, maybe that's where he picked up his instructions? I bet if we waterboarded the Standard's staff, they would admit it.

Wow, you righties don't even know what "right wing" means, do you? One of the principle tenants of the rightwing (and I don't just mean the American rightwing) is xenophobia, or for those righties here who don't like big words, the fear/hatred of all things foreign. To say this halfwit is a leftie is like saying Dick Cheney is a pretty young woman.

Nice try, Dave. If you did any kind of research, you'd see the freeper who posted the article is a Christian. von Brunn hated Christians and Jews. Hope your next attempt at smearing freepers works better.

Far Right hates jews and Israel? Yeah, right. Most people would likely consider me to be far right, I support Israel, I visit the Holocaust Museum whenever I'm in the area. As a student of history, I have a hard time with people that associate hatred of races/religions/creeds with any political party, I tend to look at those people as idiots and ignore them as such. Hatred is not a political philosophy, everyone is capable of it, and no one should let it get the best of them.

Von Brunn wrote a letter. He said you want to take my guns this is how you will get my gun. He said Obama was made by Jews and controled by Jews. He rants a little more on Obama and then mentions his website and book.

The reliably infantile Michelle Malkin seems to think that because the shooter---a "birther"--may have hated FOX News and the Weekly Standard, he couldn't have possibly been a "right-wing extremist," and--by her twisted logic--that means the DHS report warning against "right-wing extremism" is still "crap" (to use her initial description of it.)
Uh, Michelle? I thought that your kind has always claimed that FOX News wasn't "right-wing?"
Such a tangled web for our l'il Michelle, ain't it?

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, with his full name, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Some have suggested that the term "neocon" is simply an antisemitic codeword for Jew. Not true. Two of the most prominent neocons are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think either is Jewish. So the idea that anyone who opposes neoconservatism is antisemitic is just baloney.

The extremist right wing in America is such a sick breed that they are trying to turn this around on President Obama. Yesterday, Glenn Beck said that Obama's supposed socialist policies drove this guy to violence. Is there any boundary that Fox News won't cross?

Geniuses:
Von Brunn was a RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST!
Look at his views, look at his hatred. All the hallmarks of RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM.
Of course, how can I expect a bunch of historical illiterates to understand that when most of them think that a fascist and a socialist are the same thing?

Because this nut job was going to attack his own (the necons who work at the Weekly Standard) he is now considered a Lefty... Please... Repubs we are not that stupid... we know you eat your own... Look what you have done to Colin Powell... or anyone else who dares to speak truth to your lies... Nope This NEo-Nazi... thug is definitely part of your clan...

Since the 1960s racism has been the Republicans tool, not the Democrats. To say that this nut is a leftie is just plain silly. As to why he hated the neo cons, well, the neo cons may have been a part of the Republican party but they were the least Republican part. Traditionally the GOP didn't like engaging in wars, they didn't want to be the "worlds policeman." The neo cons were exactly the opposite of that, they thought America should flex its muscles overseas and just take whatever it wanted. And rightly or wrongly many claim the neo cons were owned and operated by Israel.

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, WITH HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Glenn Beck today on shooting!
"What they're missing is: The pot in America is boiling. And this is just yet another warning to all Americans of things to come." Boycott the advertisers on these shows and speak with your wallet.

This is stupid. The man was a Neo-Nazi whose anti-semitic writings date back for years. He referred to the "Jew Judge" and the "Jew/Negro Lawyers" involved in his earlier felony convictions. He new EXACTLY where he was going and it WAS NOT the Weakly Standard (spelling change intentional).

Digs into Dan Rather. He hates the media. He hates Jews and Blacks and Obama.
Being 88, he is the same type who operated in the south. The Klan rallies bashed Jews, Blacks, Catholics. They are also xenophobic. They were once Dixiecrats who switched to the current Republican Party afer the Civil Rights Act signed by a Democratic President. There are rightwing Democrats and rightwing Republicans.

Again, not every rightwinger switched to supporting the neocon agenda. This guy is old--held on to the old racist feelings.

All of y'all are sick!! "Leftist" this..."Right" that..."Neocon"..."Libral"...blahh...blahh. Don't any of you even care that a 39 year old man left yesterday morning to go to work and never returned home to his family?!?! You all let your political emotions blind you from the real world around you!!

The guy is xenophobic, therfore he is a rightwinger. That does NOT mean he was a Republican, he could have been a part of some fringe party. As to the Weekly Standard/neo cons, well, go to wikipedia and look up neo cons and it will be obvious to you why he didn't like the Weekly Standard/neo cons.

He sounds like a classic fascist or Nazi right out of the 1920s and 1930s, and they too believed that the Jews controlled Wall Street and international finance, and started wars between countries to increase their profits. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh believed this, as did their Leader in Germany. For a historian, there's nothing new at all in what this guy was saying: it's all been said before, a million times.

Holocaust Museum Shooting: Emboldened By a Federally-Enabled American Gestapo?
THIS MORNING, OFFICIALS BEHIND A COVERT 'MULTI-AGENCY COORDINATED ACTION PROGRAM' MAY HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS.
WHY WON'T THE FBI OPEN A CIVIL RIGHTS PROBE INTO GOVERNMENT-ENABLED VIGILANTISM AIMED AT JEWS, 'DISSIDENTS' AND MINORITIES?
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This writer has been stalked and harassed and persecuted in multiple states by organized vigilantes, some of whom have menacingly uttered to my face the phrase, "Jesus Christ is the way." That's just the tip of the iceberg, as readers of WaPo political blogs may know.
Yet the FBI refuses to open a civil rights investigation -- a probe that I have requested in repeated personal visits to FBI's Philadelphia office over the past two years. Nor will local authorities open a formal investigation.
Vigilante neo-Nazis are stalking, harassing and torturing unjustly "targeted" Americans -- in Bucks County, PA, in Maryland, in D.C. and its suburbs -- and in communities across America.
They think they are above the law. Could that be because certain powerful, secretive federal agencies knowingly countenance vigilantism in America -- and refuse to investigate credible complaints of harassment, physical abuse and worse that appears to be in part ethnically-based?
What is the role of a secretive federal "multi-agency coordinated action program" in fueling this hate machine?
Prsident Obama, Vice President Biden, Attorney General Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano:
Summon the following officials to the Oval for a thorough grilling about policies and programs involving
? Extrajudicial targeting and punishment, including organized citizen community "stalking," harassment and financial exploitation of unjustly targeted individuals and their families;
? Covert implanting of GPS tracking devices on innocent but "targeted" citizens by persons affiliated with law enforcement agencies or citizen volunteer programs;
? Covert use of microwave radiation "directed energy weapons" on American citizens and their families.
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan; FEMA Director Craig Fugate; FBI Director Robert Mueller; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; (outgoing) NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander; Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, former Army JSOC commander; CIA Deputy Director Steve Kappas; (outgoing) DARPA Director Tony Tether; IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman; former IRS commissioner Mark Everson.
READ ABOUT "GESTAPO USA" HERE:
nowpublic.com/world/gestapo-usa-govt-funded-vigilante-network-terrorizes-america
OR if link is corrupted / disabled):
http://NowPublic.com/scrivener

Racism has actually been a great tool for the Democrats for the past 40 years. Whenever Republicans make points that Democrats can't engage in with a thoughtful response, they just scream "racism." It's been pretty effective too, unfortunately. And I'm pretty sure it's the left that keeps blaming Israel for our problems in the Middle East. I'm not saying this guy is a lefty like the left keeps classifying every domestic act of terrorism as hate (or ignoring it when it doesn't fit the argument, see Pvt. Long, William), I'm saying that this guy was just mentally disturbed and fit under no political classification.

An awful lot of rightwing Republicans(especially older ones) did not like the embrace of Jews. They did not like the RAPTURIST/settlers movement
embraced by Likudite Jewish and Christian fundamentalists.

I know this is a few years old, but... the FBI SAID THE GREATEST TERROR THREAT IS FROM THE LEFT!!
WHY do we never see the MSM talking about the threats from the left. Why do then barely touch on the terrorism from the Obama/Left friend's groups? It's because they are trying to make a case for Obama's "Domestic Military" he promised during the elections that will target conservatives. You just wait. It's just around the corner. READ ARTICLE BELOW.
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FBI: Eco Extremists Are Top Domestic Terror Threat
Environment & Climate News > July 2005
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Environment > Enviro Groups
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Written By: James M. Taylor
Published In: Environment & Climate News > July 2005
Publication date: 07/01/2005
Publisher: The Heartland Institute
Extremist environmental activist groups are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat, John Lewis of the Federal Bureau of Investigation told a Senate committee on May 18.
With environmental activist groups increasing the frequency and severity of terrorist activities, they have surpassed "right-wing extremists, KKK, anti-abortion groups, and the like," said Lewis.
"The FBI estimates that the Animal Liberation Front/Earth Liberation Front and related groups have committed more than 1,100 criminal acts in the United States since 1976, resulting in damages conservatively estimated at approximately $110 million," Lewis testified.
FBI Notes Disturbing Trend
Although environmental activist groups have resorted to physical violence and even murder in Europe, eco-extremists in the United States have so far limited their tactics to violence against property and personal harassment and intimidation that has stopped short of personal physical violence.
However, "the FBI has observed troubling signs that this is changing," Lewis told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "We have seen an escalation in violent rhetoric and tactics. Attacks are also growing in frequency and size."
"There is nothing else going on in this country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions," said Lewis.
Innocent People Targeted
On May 9, the Washington Post reported that earlier this year Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists targeted the wife of a pharmaceutical company executive for particularly alarming harassment. The activists followed the woman to her workplace, broke into her car, and stole her credit cards. Earlier, the activists had painted the words "Puppy Killer" on the couple's home and posted on the Internet the couple's home telephone number, license plate numbers, and bank account numbers.
Attacks also have been made against 30 other employees of the company, according to the FBI. ALF has since threatened to target more innocent people with even the most tenuous connections to the company. "Anybody who does business with this company, they become a legitimate target for the campaign," ALF spokesman Jerry Vlasak told the Post.
"We all have things we believe in, but do we set bombs and light cars on fire?" asked the executive's wife. "We live in a country where people shouldn't live like that."
"When most Americans hear about environmental activists, they think about picket signs and street corner protests," said David Martosko, research director for the Center for Consumer Freedom. "But there is a disturbing underbelly to these activist groups that believes that detonating bombs, making death threats, physically assaulting people, and terrorizing through stalking are justified means of confronting people with whom they disagree."
"According to an FBI spokesman," added Steven Milloy, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, "this statement was recently made by one extremist: 'If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.'"
"It is about time the federal government begins taking such terrorism seriously and begins prosecuting this unlawful behavior," Martosko said.
PETA Funds Terror Groups
While ALF and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) openly promote and perpetrate such terrorist acts, a more "mainstream" activist group is also having to defend its encouragement of ecoterrorism.
The article goes on but is probably too much to post here. Just google it.

The worst thing about Von Brunn's "Obama is missing" right-wing rant, published on the freerepublic website, is all of the comments posted after it by gullible Republican readers. It's like a fox news-style orgy of ignorance in print form.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts

"As I am sure you are aware the KKK, which is in league with the Neo-Nazi movement, was created by the Democratic party. Further more Nazism is also predominantly a left wing ideology with the gov't being owner of industry. Please don't blur the line and accept a demonstrably false premise. Thank you, Aaron Gardner"

Bullsh!t Aaron Gardner. The Democrats were the Conservative party at the time, and the Republicans were the progressives (dominated by northern liberal elites and the like). The Republicans started becoming the conservatives in the 1930's, and had fully become the right-wing party that we have today by the 1960's. So, the KKK have been with the right all along. Second of all, Nazism is a right-wing philosophy you lying retard. To wit:

Fascists are Social Darwinists who believe in a strong Corporate Structure, Racism, Class-hierarchy, innate superiority of a certain peoples or group (based on lineage, ethnicity, etc.) mandating that they should be the rulers of the world because of it (natural selection), they abhor efforts towards social and economic equality for violating what they see as natural law, and they have a strong belief in jingoistic militaristic nationalism (warmongers). A strong belief in "might makes right" is also a primary trait.

That sounds an awful lot like you Republicans doesn't it? It's common knowledge that Fascism and Nazism are right-wing ideologies, and it's highly ironic that you all are using Nazi-esque bullsh!t propaganda techniques to try and create the illusion otherwise.

Note Found in von Brunn's Car
According to charging documents filed today in Washington, DC., investigators found a note in the car James von Brunn drove to the Holocaust Museum. In what investigators refer to as "handwritten notations" found in a notebook in the car, von Brunn wrote ...
"You want my weapons -- this is how you'll get them. The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jew owners tell him to do. Jews captured America's money. Jews control the mass media."
-from talkinpointsmemo

The worst thing about Von Brunn's "Obama is missing" right-wing rant, published on the freerepublic website, is all of the comments posted after it by gullible Republican readers. It's like a fox news-style orgy of ignorance in print form. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts

BYP - Spot on! Anyone who uses the terms socialist and fascist interchangeably has no clue what they are talking about. And speaking of Nazi style rhetoric, doesn't "Homeland Security" sound like something straight out of 1930s Germany? I don't have a problem with the HSD, just the name is so... fascist.

Man, is there any way to shut Dave up? I don't care if you're left or right, the fact that half the comments on this story are from one guy (and just say the same thing, over and over again) has to be annoying some of you.
As to the story, I agree with what someone else said: we can argue about whether he was left or right until we're blue in the face, but in the end he was still just crazy and that pretty much trumps everything else.

I wish people would stop casually conflating "right-wing" in the Nazi sense with "right-wing" in the American political sense. It is dishonest and willfully misleading.
The Nazis were National Socialists. They were to the right of the Communists (basically anyone to the right of Stalin at the time), but they were to the left of the Austrian liberal school of economics (Hyeck, Von Mises, Friedman) who inform the American right.
Byp seems to think "racist" and "strong corporate structure" defines the American right. This is silly propaganda. The Nazis wanted a strong state-controlled corporate structure. American conservatives want free and competitive corporations not controlled by the state.
We can have left and right debates, but I really wish the left would stop this hurtful rhetoric that says economic libertarians are Nazis. It is ignorant.
Republicans and Democrats are both liberals in the classical sense. Some are Burkean liberals and some are progressive liberals.
And there are anti-Semites on the left and right.

Obviously not, and that idiot Glenn Beck is the same one who riled those idiots up to kill those cops by telling them that Obama was coming to take their guns away.
Great point! The guy who killed a police officer in Pittsburgh was an avid watcher of Fox News and hated President Obama. Also, the guy who murdered some people at a liberal church in Tennessee last year had that disgusting Bernard Goldberg hate book in his house.

You people are so damned stupid. This puts him in the anti-government/Freemen/McVeigh FAR right rather than the left. He's a Ron Paul man, a birther, and believes Obama was "created by the Jews." Yeah, a real left winger. Idiots.

Randy - As has been gone over on this very thread the Republican party was the progressive party up until the 30s, by the end of the 60s it was the conservative party. Right wing Democrats (dixiecrats) fled the Democratic party in the 60s and became Republicans. Nixon then set in place the Southern Strategy, firmly establishing the Republican party as the party of xenophobia and racism. Get an education Randy.

Ben, how is insisting that Obama show his birth certificate fringe? No one is refusing to pay taxes because we are now ruled by a usurper etc... We just think that If your president even if your a citizen you still need to submit the proper paperwork. No one in this country is above the law. Obama needs to submit the paperwork. But hes to much of a egomaniac to submit it.

"Von Brunn's white supremacist roots put him under the rubric of a "right-wing extremist""
Only to the serial liars on the left and the fools who believe them.
Here's a pop quiz for the hacks at Politico. Who said the following:
"Let us not seek the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us seek the secret of the religion in the real Jew. What is the profane basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money.
Very well, then, in emancipating itself from huckstering and money, and thus from real and practical Judaism, our age would emancipate itself.
An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions and thus the very possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would evaporate like some insipid vapour in the real, life-giving air of society...
We discern in Judaism, therefore, a universal antisocial element of the present time, whose historical development, zealously aided in its harmful aspects by the Jews, has now attained its culminating point, a point at which it must necessarily begin to disintegrate.
In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism."
Was it...
A - Rush Limbaugh
B - Adolf Hitler
C - Karl Marx
Hint: It's not A or B.

So, basically what we've got here is someone who had a hatred of liberals, a hatred of neocons, a hatred of jews, a hatred of blacks, a hatred of muslims...did I leave anyone out? So anyone who claims the guy is a liberal, you're an idiot. Anyone who claims the guy was a neocon, you're a idiot. Looking over the comments so far, that would mean we've got 105 certified idiots so far responding to this article. Here's your sign...

Shorter Ben Smith:
I'm a conservative. I want to downplay Von Brunn's obvious connections to right wing ideology (posts on Free Republic, statements about Obama et al.)
Therefore, I attempt to portray a paper that simply bears the address of Standard as an indication that it was a target.

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, WITH HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.

White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it. -- Rev. Al Sharpton
Since the Reverend is expressing racism here (and elsewhere), does this make him or Jesse Jackson "right-wingers"? Please.
Also, how can you Dems *stand* having ex-KKK leader Robert Byrd represent you in the Senate? Shame on you.

In his car, officers found a notebook with a handwritten note that read, "You want my weapons _ this is how you'll get them. The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews," according to a court affidavit. He was afraid to lose his illegal guns...he was a lefty!!!

To those geniuses in the media and the left wing blogosphere trying to paint this kook as a conservative, I guess it's back firing on you all. He is a neocon hating, Jew hating Left wing, white supremacist, kind of like Sen KKK Byrd, WV.
BTW his "too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification" views coincide nicely with the posts on Daily Kos and the like. Nice try Ben and Politico!

The worst thing about Von Brunn's "Obama is missing" right-wing rant, published on the freerepublic website, is all of the comments posted after it by gullible Republican readers. It's like a fox news-style orgy of ignorance in print form. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Defining things in "left-right terms" does a disservice to all partisan American's. Mr Von Brunn was not partisan, he was hateful and discriminatory. Political party or rational political discourse had NOTHING to do with this senseless act. Not everything is Red vs Blue, Dem vs Rep. All American's can find his actions wrong and disgusting.
The news media is part of the problem when they force everything into red-blue, left-right. When they can understand that, news can be saved

Randy - As has been gone over on this very thread the Republican party was the progressive party up until the 30s, by the end of the 60s it was the conservative party. Right wing Democrats (dixiecrats) fled the Democratic party in the 60s and became Republicans. Nixon then set in place the Southern Strategy, firmly establishing the Republican party as the party of xenophobia and racism. Get an education Randy

It isn't "Left" to hate Bush and the neo-cons; you can be a conservative and have those feelings. What you can't be is a Republican. That's where today's conservatives get confused: they equate conservatism with Republicanism. And that's why they fail.

Look, white separatists, etc. ARE far-right (they are conservative insofar as they seek to CONSERVE traditions like racism), in this case, far-far-right. Anyone who pretends that (ostensibly) targeting the Weekly Standard makes this guy a Liberal is confused, not to mention debasing all rational discourse. It just so happens Von Brunn's way, way right of the likes of Wm. Kristol. That said, there are a lot of similarities between some of his views, as reported by the...ahem..."JEW-run media", and a lot the right wing comments on this site, e.g. Obama not a citizen, anti-immigrant, anti-govt. groupthink. But let's be real, that doesn't mean any of you idiots are going to shoot anybody. I do, however, fear that this is part of a much larger trend. I remember when Obamam was elected, thinking "OK Secret Service, let's see what you guys got." Because, while I don't doubt that a lot of people would have loved to kill W., the type of folks who would want to kill Obama are much more dangerous in this case because they are more likely to be US citizens and armed.

neo cons and bill oreilly have posibley been targeted now fox will report it ha ha ha . the weekley standard was not mentioned . the poleice were just covering the bases but now it becomes a stor ha ha ha

So, if we follow the standards set forth by the crazy lefties here, Free Republic is responsible for any crazy rant copied and posted there, so Politco is responsible for any comment left here by the crazy left. That rant written by VonBrunn has now been posted here, making Politico responsible for it as much as Free Republic.
The left is getting more illogical and crazier by the day.

To quote Jonah Goldberg:
Liberals start from the assumption that fascism is on the right and then they fit their own biases to the political spectrum. What I Don't Like becomes "fascist." Things I Have Sympathy For, in whole or part, becomes left.

Once again the comments show how uneducated the RIGHT is. What part of "denying President Obama is an American citizen" don't you get? Hey, you know who else despises Bush and neocons? THE FAR RIGHT!! Conservatives despise Bush. The FAR RIGHT hate "neocons!" Have you ever listened to Michael Savage?! He's as far right as you get! And he hates Bush, O'REilly, Obama, etc. Please, I beg you all to work towards obtaining an education. This is what is scary about America. Anyone who thinks this man is a "Leftist' needs to finish getting their high school diploma!

No, Free Republic is not Responsible for this guy. And to call this guy a conservative or a liberal is insane. He is a far, far rightwing nutball. The leftwing has extremists too, the ELF and to a lesser degree PETA, but I doubt this sadsack gave a squirt about the earth or animals. My point is both sides have their fringe elements and those fringe elements are rarely members of the more centrist political parties.

Nazi = right wing?!? are you nuts?
That is disgusting and insulting.
Right wing = small government, personal freedom, personal responsibility. It has nothing to do with fascism or the evils of nazism.
The only place you hear that lie is from the mouth of a bitter liberal.

Jesse Jackson: ?Spitting into the food of white customers at a hotel in Greenville, South Carolina gave me a psychological gratification.?
Welcome to the Right Wing, Jesse. Your racism qualifies you for membership without question. We'll try to see how your re-distributionist ideas can fit in with our ideals of smaller, less intrusive government and enhanced individual liberty and property rights. Education indeed.

The media only calls white supremacists and neo-Nazis "right wing" because the media is nothing but a buncha liberal hate mongers who try to tarnish the right at any opportunity. The only group of people who are right-wing extremists are anarchists.

Can we stop with the Right / Left crap? A nut job is a nut job. This guy didn't know his left from his right. He knew he was ****ed off and people were gonna pay for it. It's not any more complicated than that.

Go over to huffpo. You'll find anti-Jewish rants that echo this loser almost word for word. The crypto-fascists on the left are every bit as bigoted as the KKK! This guy probably posted on huffpo. Aryanna needs to 'fess up' to her empathy for the Third Reich!

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic". His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008 It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed. His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts. I don't know why the MSM is not covering this. Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James
W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James
W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Also, he having the address of the Weekly Standard on him seems more like a Muslim extremist having the address of a local mosque in his pocket. Would the address of a local mosque be taken as a plan to attack it?

Once again the comments show how uneducated the RIGHT is. What part of "denying President Obama is an American citizen" don't you get? Hey, you know who else despises Bush and neocons? THE FAR RIGHT!! Conservatives despise Bush. The FAR RIGHT hate "neocons!" Have you ever listened to Michael Savage?! He's as far right as you get! And he hates Bush, O'REilly, Obama, etc. Please, I beg you all to work towards obtaining an education. This is what is scary about America. Anyone who thinks this man is a "Leftist' needs to finish getting their high school diploma!
Posted By: TJL | June 11, 2009 at 04:24 PM
More proof the idiot hate mongering left are uneducated buffoons.

The only 9/11 conspiracy I found him quoted on was the idea that "the jews" somehow were told not to show up to work that day, and that only 1 died in that attack... yeah, THATS leftist. Got a link or quote to support what YOU wrote?
http://twitter.com/igotmyreasons

Right or Left? Registered Democrat. Hates Christianity, Israel, Bush, McCain, William Buckley, Zionists, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly. Supports socialism. Attempts to shoot up The Weekly Standard.
But he is racist, and deluded lefists like to to smear poop that "racism = right-wing" even though most racists in history were socialist and leftist. Not clever, and completely tacky. The shooter was a leftist.

Current Senate Democrat Robert Byrd said that he would never fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." Pretty harsh stuff from Byrd (KKK) W. Va, and a huge embarrassment to you Dems trying to cast aspersions. It's a good thing he's not a member of The Party of Xenophobia and Racism. We have demolished the simplistic idea that racism=right wing, and have helped to enlighten our friends on the left.

Reading these posts I've come to the conclusion that the cure for right wing extremism is an education. If any of you wingnuts knew what you were talking about you wouldn't be saying the things you are. The right wing is the party of xenophobia and nationalism. Look it up. Or better yet go back to school and get your GEDs, you might find the history classes particularly interesting. Morons.

The Obama media will now say move along theres nothing to see here.The guy was going after legit targets.Just like that muslim who shot the 2 soldiers.It doesnt warrant to much of their time to cover it.Lets go back to the real news about the martyr tiller killed for snuffing 8 months old babies.Also how Obama is like GOD and michelle is a super model.

And so we find the far "left", in the person of Rev Wright, and the far "right", in the person of Von Brunn, meeting together in WackyTown.
Because no matter how crazed and otherwise different two people might be, they can always come to the same reasoned opinion on "them Jews".

"The right wing is the party of xenophobia and nationalism" -- Except the National Socialists and Britain's BNP Party are LEFTIST. Read Liberal Fascism and get yourself a REAL education, don't be a fascist stooge.

Von Brunn is a registered Democrat. Lefties, you're embarrassing yourselves trying to paint him as a right-winger. I'm not the least bit surprised since hate and xenophobia are the linchpin of modern liberalism.

?You cannot go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin? Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I?m not joking.? - Joe Biden (D)
?The Ku Klux Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. . . . It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union.? - Robert Byrd (D)
?I?ll have them n****rs voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.? - Lyndon Johnson (D)
Oh Gawd - did we forget to send out the invitations for these great men to join our Party of Xenophobia and Racism? Where ever ARE our manners I ask.

Wow, I'm reading that the "right wing" murderer is a registered Democrat, hates Jews (just like Obama's pastor does), hates Christians (like many on the left do), hates Bush (also part of the lefty curriculum vitae), hates neocons, hates big corporations (another lefty position), and was a socialist. Hmmmm. This is really going to complicate the narrative, isn't it? Maybe left wingers will think twice before they celebrate a senseless murder as a political win for their side.

Randy - It has been pointed out to you many times that the Republican party used to be the party of progressives and that the parties flipped in the late 60s. I'm sorry this historical fact is beyond your little brains ability to understand, but try, try to think before you type.

Chris Andersen - ever consider reading the article before posting your comments? Sounds like you stopped at paragraph 3.
The guy who listed the Neocons - Felix Rohatyn? C'mon, dude is about as neocon as the Governor of New Jersey (with similar resumes and bank accounts to boot). And why the hell does everyone assume Neocon is the same as conservative jew? "Feith / Perle / Wolfowitz et al."
Gimme a break - that's what all the jew haters try to point to, a jewish conspiracy, as opposed to (as another person here mentioned) a strong internationalist wilsonianism.
(do you liberals even feel slightly embarrassed that you wish to leave the majority of the globe mired in their own filth? of course not, have another latte!)

We should have known this museum gunman wasn't a libertarian conservative. The Government officials were just too quick to say he was a lone gunman who acted alone. They knew he was a left wing kook who hated President Bush, Christaians, Jews, neocons and fox news. A holocaust denier, 911 truther, atheist and supremacist. Sounds like a former Robert Byrd (DNC) grandmaster ilk. I find it interesting that just as Obama is praising muslims, a muslim convert goes out and gun down an army recruiter. Just as Obama compared Israel conflict with Nazis killing 6 million Jews, an anti semetic gunman goes out and attack the Holocaust museum.
This fanatic did not want to hear anyone criticize Germany and guess who just came back from a tour of trashing Germany. We must be careful and responsible in what we say and how we say it. Many marijuana crazed people out there with a gun in their hands. At the end of the day, the media must refrain from inciting all this hatred of one party. Kos Kooks anyone?

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." -This racist quote was how I knew that Sonia Sotomayor was really a closet right-winger and that she deserves our support. After all, racist=right wing, per your learned formula, ye who art afraid to use any name.

Von Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

I fail to see why the fact that he had the address of the Weekly Standard in his car has any bearing on his political position. He acted out what Limbaugh, Savage, the hate mongers at Fox, and numerous others have been advocating. He took up arms against what he considered the enemy who were opposed to what he wanted America to be. That some reichwingers are trying to distort the facts to make it look like they had nothing to do with it just means that there are more like von Brunn out there that haven't yet been caught.

Well, now. We were taught last week that "right-wing" talk shows were criminally responsible for the death of Kansas butcher Tillman. Maybe I'll accept that line of reasoning. But only if we agree that Obama, Nepolitano, the NYT, CNN, and most of the Hollywood Left is equally responsible for this latest rampage. But then, I'm not holding my breath.

So all of these clown ass liberals who have been claiming that the killer was a "right winger" now have ample egg on their lame ass faces!!!!!! Most anti-semites in this country and indeed around the world are left wingers as was Adolph Hitler himself.

Weekly Standard may have been shooter target
Let's see, he goes to the Jewish Museum and kills a black man some how I think a bunch of white guys at the Weakly Standard were way down on his list.He hated but he wasn't crazy.

"...some reichwingers are trying to distort the facts to make it look like they had nothing to do with it" - This is the lamest formulation I've seen all day in these comments. Don't embarrass A&M with this drivel the same way Robert (KKK) Byrd embarrasses the Democratic party with his very presence. At least pretend to be a Longhorn for us.

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

The worst thing about Von Brunn's "Obama is missing" right-wing rant, published on the freerepublic website, is all of the comments posted after it by gullible Republican readers. It's like a fox news-style orgy of ignorance in print form. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts

Hey, teabaggers-we don't have to speculate about this nut's political philosophy-he wrote thousands of words about it on the internet. He wrote at length about how great Bush and Palin are and how much he depises Obama. Stop denying reality or you'll end up as crazy as him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141655/posts

For an hour after President Kennedy was shot and killed Goldwater headquarters was stoned,the right was blamed etc..then when it was discovered that a leftist murdered our president..without a blink of an eyelash the tone changed to ..it was the rights hatred that influenced this poor skinny unhappy kid to do this..and so it goes...like pavlovs mutts we are supposed to salivate on cue..whats that..for today 2+2=5..yes o master

Dave, interseting thesis you got there pal. Von Brun may have been a birther but he was also a 9/11 "truther" and he hated the Republican party, FOX News, and the conservative Weekly Standard. ---SO IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR LITTLE GUILT BY ASSOCIATION SMEAR JOB CAN WORK BOTH WAYS.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute: the guy hates blacks and Jews, denies the Holocaust, but since his hatred for Jews included Jewish Republicans, a clearly crazy man is a "leftist"? How does that work? Have some common sense here people.

Wait, so a white supremacist fits neatly under the rubric of the modern American "right wing", but if he hates "neocons" and believes in conspiracy theories then he's "too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification."?
White supremacy has nothing to do with modern American conservatism, so that alone would ID him as a nut who's too fringe to classify with mainstream political labels, no matter how badly the media wanted to paint this guy as a "rightie".

"his views . . . are too far on the fringe to fit into conventional political classification."
Rubbish. This man was a Democrat, a Bush basher, an admirer of Chomsky, a 9/11 conspiracy monger, and a Jew-hater. He is the very epitome of the modern hard Left, where most of the real Jew-hatred in today's world comes from (George Galloway et al.) The European left wing is packed to the rafters with people just like him. This guy is YOUR fellow traveler, Democrats, not ours.

I don't know how that conclusion was reached. Is there some writing of the shooter's that indicates a planned attack, or did he simply have the address? It sounds as if he wasn't afraid to write and post copious comments to several audiences, there should be some documented contact of the shooter to the Daily Standard. He may have simply thought of the paper as his mother ship, which he would return to (had he not been shot himself) to commit suicide. That sound more feasible. This post only asks more questions. I'm more interested in what he did write and post, where he visited, and sadly, that he shot and killed someone. Those are "knowns," whether the chap is a total nutter or just angry.

Ben, is there a way you can reverse order these comments so that we can read the most recent first? Only because each time I return to a blog, including yours, and it is lengthy, it a bit of a hassle to scroll down to the last every time. Just wondering. (Or is there something I can do to change assending/decending?) Thank you!

"Using Keith Olbermann's logic, (not mine,) Chris Matthews can be blamed for this murder. Matthews has used the word 'NeoCon' as a pejorative more than anyone I know." wrote Scott.
Yes, well thank God Fox News hasn't demonized the word "liberal."

oh please, this does not "complicate" his political classification. there is an interventionist fringe right and an isolationist fringe right (see pat buchanan and the american conservative magazine). antisemitism is classically associated with the isolationist fringe right.
people are so eager to explain away right-wing extremism that they will jump at any opportunity. this guy attacking the weekly standard would have been the equivalent of an orthodox communist terror cell attacking the nation magazine.

Thats another thing, Brunn has written numerous articles on his website about how he feels that the Right Wing isnt doing enough to fight the Left. if, and i mena IF, he had any intention of attacking the weekly standard it would be because A) hes crazy, B) because he hates them for not doing enough to fight Obama and Jews apparently.

are you joking? maybe, could be, therefore he was a lefitist despite years and years of files, books, writings, emails, posts interivews, prison, you are not sure that he was raciast, supported white supremacy, was ant-semetic? WOW! this all feeds into the degradation of discourse and thre constant moral equivelancy .......

The guy hated President Obama, and wanted him dead. I don't think anyone from the left wants President Obama dead. Also, the Naizi party hated jews, blacks and anyone with brown skin. They were a facist group that wanted only white people to rule the world. That doesn't sound like anyone I know who is a democrat. It does sound like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, and Tancredo.

"Yes, well thank God Fox News hasn't demonized the word "liberal."
perptacular
FOX news did not BLAME anyone for the killing of the Army recruiter other than the killer. Olbermann flat out blamed O'Reilly for the Tiller murder. See the difference? Again, I am only using Olbermann's twisted logic. Sorry it went over your head.

I'm hearing a lot from the right thinking somehow that this suddenly pushes this guy to the left. What they fail to realize is that when you're a loon from the right, no matter how far to the right you believe you are, there's someone just a little further behind you. Attack the left and there's someone behind you that'll whack you from behind because they don't feel that you're far enough to the right. That's what focus on the family is facing now. That's what Billo is facing now. If he doesn't watch it, that's what Rush will be facing. That's why they need to start watching what they say and be careful not to get these people too worked up.

One political group continues to hate - and they;re not right wingers!!! Perhaps Letterman is tea-bagging Anderson on a 360-tour of the museum! There's where you'll find the hate! Looks at Chris Matthew's red-faced hatred for everything non-liberal!

Nope, nice try. He wasn't crazy or fringe. He was your average KKK white angry conservative. He hated Obama and government. Your average tea bagger. Read all his material and his web site. Calling him "liberal" is like calling John Birch liberal.
You guys on the right are all about hate. Karl Rove was the founder of hyper-partisanship and is proud of it. You are egging all these people on and there is no coincidence that this guy went to kill Jews, Dr. Tiller was murdered for performing legal abortions by a right winger and 3 cops in Philly were killed by a right winger who was told by Rush, Bill and Sean that Obama was coming for his guns. His view, use them or lose them.
You and your leaders (Michelle Bachmann) have been calling for violence ever since Obama was elected. Fortunately, the vast majority of American have had it with you.
Hopefully the right wing terrorists are now even more on the FBIs radar. And, if I were Rush or Bill or Sean, I wonder if I would have my lawyers checking to see if I could be sued by the widow of Dr. Tiller for incitement to murder.

my, my the righties really do mimic everything Rush tells them.
He says this white supremist anti government, gun loving kook is left and the righties all go crazy trying to convince everyone Von Brunn is leftist.
How very sad that the righties cannot think independently and just take their orders from a drug addict.
If he told the righties to dunk their heads in the toilet at noon and then flush - well sewer systems everywhere would be going haywire from all the righties flushing their heads.
The man is classified as a rightwing extremist.
It has zero to do with political belief. It has everything to do with his extreme views.
If he was an anarchist he would be left extreme but, he's in the authoritarian wing of extremists so that means he is a right wing extremist.

And, he had the Weekly Standard address. Maybe he had a contact there and was going to pick up his latest issue.
But, the fact that he didn't like the religious rights support of Israel doesn't make him a liberal. It makes him number one a Jew hater which trumps everything. Every one of his other ideas was mainstream right.

Although there are some sane comments posted here most of you seem to see through your MSNBC goggles or your FOX NEWS goggles. What a bunch of sheep. Is it at all possible that the guy was just nuts? Why does he have to have some hidden political ideology? He was just a hateful bigot.

Here's what we're going to get from the mainstream media from now on, every disaster is the fault of conservative talk radio or global warming or both. Is it a coincidence that on the same week that Rev. Jeremiah Wright goes on a rant about "them Jews" that a left-wing nutjob shoots up the Holocaust museum. If I lived in Oppositeworld and I was Keith Olbermann and Rev. Wright was a right-wing talk-show host, I wouldn't think so.

Von Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

Von Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic".
His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008
It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed.
His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts.
I don't know why the MSM is not covering this.
Google "Obama is Missing"

HA HA HA ... any one who thinks the hater of jews & blacks who worked for rightwinged publishers was leftwinged is insane... truly insane.
The guy probably had the Weekly Standard address so he could send them his article after his disgusting deed ... he wasn't expecting to get shot at jump street.

The right has a serious public relations problem. No matter his political persuasion, the public assumes that if he hates a minority group, then he must be right-wing, and unfortunately all the evidence points in that direction. Can anyone remember seeing a person of color at a Palin rally? 2,380 delegates at the Republican convention, and I think 39 were black. Not a day goes by on Fox News that they don't mention immigration, and mostly in ways that seem to insult all Hispanics. If it weren't a nearly all-white party, then I don't think Republicans would need to try so hard to deflect the negative attention they are again receiving.

The notion that this man's hatred of neoconservatives, makes him a left-wing liberal is beyond patently absurd. One must be either ignorant or deluded to a point that is barely conceivable by rational individuals.
There are numerous conservatives, Pat Buchanan being among the most well known, who detest, or at least are highly critical of, neoconservatism and neo conservatives. They perceive them as heretics-pseudo conservatives who are in reality Left-Wing/Liberals. This belief has more than a grain of truth to it; for neoconservatives are refugees from the Left. They began as socialists, and New Deal Liberal Democrats, who were, incidentally, very anti-communist. They eventually became disillusioned with the Left and the Democratic Party during the 1960's, because of the rise of the "New Left," which was anti war. Thus, they began to move towards conservatism, and the rest is history.
Mr. Von Bruun's primarily reason, presumably, for despising neoconservatives is the fact that many of them are Jewish. Though, most Jews are not neocons. Most Jews are liberals. In fact, Jews constitute the heart of the American Left. The Left that Mr. Von Brunn clearly despises, for this and other reasons. He frequently ranted against the Marxist/Liberals in the media, university, and in the culture in general. Sound familiar, conservatives?
Again, conservatives attempt to place this right-wing crack pot within the confines of liberalism is just laughable.
What do you think he thought of gun control?
How about affirmative action?
How about multiculturalism?
How about immigration?
How about bilingual education?
How about gay marriage?
How about liberal activist judges?
How about Barack Obama?
How about health care for illegal immigrants?
How about internationalism and the United Nations?
How about the international criminal court?
How about the ACLU?
How about liberal academics and the University system?
How about public education and the liberal teachers unions?
How about the "liberal" media?
How about pacifism?
How about taxes?
How about the death penalty?

Yes, Ben is exhibiting his ignorance as usual. Number one, It is not difficult to be on the right of the Weekly Standard. It is not a right-wing magazine. It is a center magazine. Ben also writes here that "white supremacists" are necessarily right-wing. Or under the rubric, whatever. Obama's pastor just made an anti-Semite comment yesterday. So, is Obama responsible for this since he donated thousands of dollars to Wright?

Wow, before reading the comments of the liberals, read what extreme left wing "news" sites like the Huffington Post say. All these people do is copy and paste. They don't think for themselves. Its amazing. They even admit to posting fake news stories, yet left wingers believe everything they say, without question. Proof the Huffington Post makes up its news: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/19/john-gibson-compares-eric_n_168377.html

Antisemitism is a problem in the world and the left loves to blame the right for it. The left will even attempt to claim that the Nazi's were right wing. The Nazi's were the National Socialist party. Any poster who claims otherwise either lacks a 6th grade education or is a pathetic liar.

Additionally, I think were should exam hate and those who sponsor it. Look at Reverend Wright's recent antisemitic comments by clicking on the links (I will not restate such hate here). Now, that we have established Wrights, antisemitism, lets follow the money and see who he works for. Over the years, none other than Barack Obama has given Wright $20,000 (see third link). So, following the hate and the money behind it, Barack Obama has helped fund Wright's insidious antisemitism and antisemitism in general. INTERESTING.

Am I saying in any way that Wright or Obama had anything to do with this act of terror, no. What I am doing is busting the left wing lie parroted by liberal posters here that hate exists only on the right. Hate exists everywhere, liberals, and perhaps if you left your echo chamber, you would realize it. Don't just parrot the views you see on TV, think just a little, and you will have a richer life for it.

The shooter has more in common with the vitriol found on left-wing blogs, websites and MSNBC than on any website or journal that holds values in the traditional-to-conservative spectrum. His belief that the 9/11/01 horror was somehow an inside job is clearly left-wing black helicopter stuff and as recently as Wednesday the "Rev" Jeremiah Wright asserted the his spiritual son who sites in the Offal (whoops) OVAL Office has his public access controlled by Jews.

Ha, ha, ha. Everyone here spreading hate. All of you, you're all spreading hate. You want to kill george Tiller and then are surprised when some one does. Now you are sitting here congratulating yourselves when this crazy man is simply that - crazy. "Oh, Hooray, Halleluja, amen, this man isn't right-wing!" You ought to read between the lines of this article. It was written to make you hate the left even more when left, right has nothing to do with it, just insanity.

My ORIGINAL POST from the day it happened and look at the grief I got for it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/holocaust-museum-shooting_n_213831.html?page=33&show_comment_id=25443352#comment_25443352
"I don't see this as a 'left' or 'right' issue, at all. It is the act of an extremist person, and while we may know a little about his views, to attempt ot pin this to the 'left' or 'right' is unnecessary and can only lead to further divisions.
This is about one extremist man, who for some reason, felt hatred so deep, it permeated his soul.
Neither the left or the right can be blamed for this, or are immune from this, either.
A real tragedy, to the family of those lost and injured - nothing political.
Don't feed the hate....."

Conservos don't feel exonorated that quickly and try to dump this one on the left. He hated Jews, he thought they controlled the system - and Neocons in particular to blame for the Iraq war to protect Israel.
Where was the war sold, backed, and promoted? The Weekly Standard.
Nothing to do with leftist thinking.

Get your facts straight - Nazis are left wing fascists. The conservative adgenda is opposed to the fascist doctrine. History shows what Hitler established for his national socialist adgenda, compare it to what the American Left's doctrine is. It was the Russians who pinned "right wing" on Mousolini in order to usurp his power. Since then the American Left has succeeded to do to the Conservatives what the Russians did to Mousilini. ("facts are simple and facts are straight" David Byrne)

Isn't this attempted "Suicide by Cop" An 88 year old coot attacking a heavily guarded facility and facing multiple return fire from 9mm or .40 cal. weapons. It appears that this idiot wanted his 15 minutes of fame.

every one of modern history's most prolific political murderers has been a liberal. Mao in China, Stalin and others in Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Hitler and National Socialism, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, you could even go back to Robespierre and Le Terroir in the 1790s. Liberals hate dissent.

James von Brunn, the man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was a Darwin-lover who hated the Bible and Christians, and defies media efforts to classify him as a stereotypical "right-winger," according to reports.
The Moonbattery blog revealed von Brunn advocated the socialist policies espoused by Adolf Hitler and used Darwinian theory to support his anti-Semitism.
And in statements that later were stripped from an anti-religion website, he wrote, "The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION ? CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES."
The blog had an answer to how to classify von Brunn, who remains hospitalized after being shot while attacking and shooting a guard at the museum: "If it barks like a moonbat, it's a moonbat."

James von Brunn, the man who allegedly shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was a Darwin-lover who hated the Bible and Christians, and defies media efforts to classify him as a stereotypical "right-winger," according to reports.
The Moonbattery blog revealed von Brunn advocated the socialist policies espoused by Adolf Hitler and used Darwinian theory to support his anti-Semitism.
And in statements that later were stripped from an anti-religion website, he wrote, "The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION ? CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES."
The blog had an answer to how to classify von Brunn, who remains hospitalized after being shot while attacking and shooting a guard at the museum: "If it barks like a moonbat, it's a moonbat."

Whenever one of these wackos commit their heinous acts spurred on by the rantings of Rush and Hannity, Rush and Hannity are the first to label them a nutcase, and then start to manufacture leftist leanings to draw attention away from themselves. All Right wing terrorist wackos kill and maim to get attention, and are usually dealing with some inferiority complex which the GOP convinces them is caused by Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Foriegners, etc. and by "big government" for accommodating these sets of "otherly" people somehow. Issues such as Immigration, abortion, Gay rights, taxes, gun control, etc... are then whipped up and wound around this central theme to unify the desired base, but unfortunately animates some of these clowns enough to send them on a killing rampage from time to time. The Right wingnuts are very adept at this and we must give them kudos.

Um, it's not really that out of line with this guy's philosophy for him to target neocons.
In general, hasn't the word "neocon" basically been a code word for Jewish conservatives?
It doesn't mean that he wasn't a right-wing racist, just that he was more racist than right-wing.

My English grandfather was a Commie. He fought the British fascists in the streets of London in the 30s, hand to hand. (Guess whose side the police were on.)
He marched into Berlin in 45 with his squad and smashed a bust of Himmler in some Nazi bureaucrat's office.
If he could hear Rush and Beck he'd be turning in his grave.
Grow up; learn; be very very humble.

A long nutcase commits murder and the partisan idiots on both sides can't WAIT to exploit it. Why do many of you find it necessary to question the motives of people you disagree with? The actions of this sick, racist a**hole can't be pinned on 'Right wing neo cons' or 'Left wing America haters'. Only one person pulled the trigger. Only one person is responsible for a family losing their husband/father. The mother**cker who shot the guard. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS!!!! Grow the h*ll up!!!!!

The shooter was evidently a left-wing nut. His collectivist background apparently included the National Youth Alliance and involvement in or sympathies with the National Socialist White Peoples Party. Like leftists in general, he saw things in terms of group rights, collecltive identity syndrome, etc. the only real difference I can see between him and most other leftists is that he was more of a national socialist than an international socialist. He foolishly believes taht socialism would be good for the U.S. when Obama's AmSoc is only good for our enemies.

Von Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site "Free Republic". His hateful screed "Obama is Missing" is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008 It is still up on that site... check it out before it's removed. His Free Republic nick was "wannabegeek"... read his other rightwing hate posts. I don't know why the MSM is not covering this. Google "Obama is Missing"

This is irrefutable proof James Van Brunn was a rightwinger.
James Van Brunn was a frequent poster on the far-rightwing hate site ?Free Republic?.
His postings were well accepted by the ?Freepers?.
His hateful screed ?Obama is Missing? is signed by him, IN HIS FULL NAME, James W. von Brunn, on December 02, 2008 It is still up on that site? check it out before it?s removed.
His Free Republic nick was ?wannabegeek?? read his other rightwing hate posts.
Google Free Republic ?Obama is Missing?
Type in user, wannabegeek